A-600 · Buying
How a reservation works, the three ways to pay, what it costs beyond the price, and the questions buyers ask us most.
Any time
Explore the building, shortlist homes and come to the sales suite to see the show apartments and the model.
Day 1
Choose a payment plan online. The home is held for you for 72 hours while the sales team checks it is free and prepares a letter of offer.
Within 7 days
Pay 10% by bank transfer to the project’s escrow account. The home is then yours, and it comes off the market.
Within 30 days
Your advocate reviews the agreement for sale; you sign and pay the next instalment as your plan sets out.
Until completion
As your plan sets out: in stages as the building rises, within 90 days if you pay cash, or from your bank at completion. You can follow every stage on the progress page.
December 2028
We walk through the home with you, fix anything on the snagging list, and hand over the keys and your title.
A-601 · Payment plans
Shown on a home priced at KES 18,000,000. Every home’s page works out its own schedule to the shilling.
10% to reserve, 20% when you sign, 40% in quarterly instalments while the building goes up, and 30% when you get the keys.
KES 18,000,000
10% to reserve and the rest within 90 days of signing, with 7% off the price.
KES 16,740,000
KES 1,260,000 off for paying early
20% from you before completion, and 80% from your bank when you get the keys.
KES 18,000,000
A-602 · Costs
These are the costs a buyer usually meets on top of the price. Your advocate will confirm them for your purchase.
| Stamp dutyPaid to the government when the transfer is registered. It is 4% for homes in a town or city. | 4% of the price |
|---|---|
| Advocate’s feesSet by the Advocates Remuneration Order. You choose your own advocate. | About 1% to 1.5%, plus VAT |
| Service charge depositHeld by the management company. The charge is estimated at KES 65 a square metre a month. | Three months’ charge |
| Utility depositsFor water and electricity meters in your name. | About KES 15,000 |
| Mortgage costsYour bank’s arrangement and valuation fees, and stamp duty on the charge, usually 0.1%. | If you borrow |
A-603 · Questions
Yes. Many of our buyers live abroad. You can view by video call, sign documents with a notary or at a Kenyan embassy, and pay by international bank transfer. Each home is held as a lease, which buyers who are not Kenyan citizens can own.
Each home is registered with its own sectional title under the Sectional Properties Act, 2020. It gives you your home and a share in the land and the common areas, run by a management company the owners control.
Deposits are paid into an escrow account with the project’s bank and released only as the building reaches each stage, certified by the project’s quantity surveyor.
The agreement for sale sets the completion date and what you are owed if it slips. You can follow every stage on the progress page.
Yes, from two kitchen colourways and two floor tones, until the fit-out freeze about a year before completion.
Yes: one space with every one- and two-bedroom home and two with three-bedroom homes and penthouses. Extra spaces can be bought while they last.
Security, cleaning, the gardens and the river walk, the pool and gym, lifts, the backup generator, insurance of the building, and a fund for repairs in years to come.
Yes. Long lets need nothing more than notice to the management company. Short lets are allowed with its approval, under the building’s house rules.